Contrastive Analysis of “Fire” Conceptual Metaphors in Korean vs. Chinese Economic Corpora: A Corpus-Based Approach

韩汉两种语言中均广泛存在与“火”相关的隐喻表达。本文选取中国《人民日报》和韩国《朝鲜日报》的新闻语料自建汉语和韩语新闻语料库，从概念隐喻的视角下对韩汉经济新闻语料中的“火”的隐喻语义进行对比研究。揭示不同文化背景下经济语篇中概念隐喻的特点，为经济话语跨文化传播与翻译实践提供参照。Metaphorical expressions related to fire are widely present in both Korean and Chinese languages. This study constructs a self-compiled news corpora from China’s People’s Daily and the Republic of Korea’s The Chosun Daily as primary data sources. From the perspective of conceptual metaphor, it conducts a comparative study on the metaphorical meanings of fire in Chinese and Korean economic news corpora. By doing so, it reveals the characteristics of conceptual metaphors in economic discourses under different cultural backgrounds, providing a reference for cross-cultural communication and translation practices of economic discourse.